Used to, they arrested someone, held the trial that day if there was a judge in town (if not as soon as they could find one), passed sentence, build a scaffold, and then let them swing at dawn. If they would bring this process back, there would be a lot less of these incidents. I agree with many other posters, if the perps had been white and the victim black, we would never hear the end of this out of Sharpton, Jackson, the Black Panthers, etc. I would like to hear from Obama that if he had a son, which one of these little darlings would he look like?